Zaniza Zapotec | |
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(Santa María Zaniza) | |
Western Sola de Vega Zapotec Papabuco | |
Native to | Mexico |
Region | Oaxaca |
Native speakers | (770 cited 1990 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zpw |
Glottolog | zani1235 |
ELP | Zaniza Zapotec |
Zaniza Zapotec (Zapoteco de Santa María Zaniza) is an Oto-Manguean language of western Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of several Zapotec languages called Papabuco. It has only 10% intelligibility with Texmelucan Zapotec, its closest important relative. (Speakers of the nearly extinct Elotepec Zapotec have 70% understanding of Zaniza, but it is not known if the reverse is true,[2] so this may be a question of familiarity.)
The language is spoken in Santa María Zaniza, Oaxaca.[3] As of 2003, the language had about 400 fluent speakers.[4] It is also spoken in Santiago Textitlán.[1]
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
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plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||||
Plosive/ Affricate |
fortis | p | t | ʧ | k | kʷ | |||
lenis | b | d | ʤ | g | gʷ | ||||
Fricative | fortis | f | s | ʂ | ʃ | h | hʷ | ||
lenis | z | ʐ | ʒ | ||||||
Rhotic | ɾ | ||||||||
Lateral | l | ʎ | |||||||
Glide | w | j |
Zaniza Zapotec has five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/, phonemic vowel nasalization, and a distinction between modal and laryngealized vowels.[5]
Zaniza Zapotec words contrast low, mid, and high tones on stressed syllables. Unstressed syllables, apart from a few pronominal enclitics, do not bear contrastive tone.